OER Workshop in Patna, India - Setting the scene
  IN THIS ISSUE
Promoting the Expansion of Quality Distance Education
 
Launch of Sol Plaatje University
Issues in Translating and Versioning Stories for Early Reading in Local African Languages for the African Storybook Project
Unisa Cambridge Open Distance and eLearning Conference 2013
OER: A Question of Context
 
 

Promoting the Expansion of Quality Distance Education

October 3, 2013 could well have been labelled 'National Distance Education Day' as delegates from around the country met to discuss the Council on Higher Education's draft Distance Education Programmes in a Digital Age: Good Practice Guide. The Annual General Meeting of the National Association of Distance Education and Open Learning in South Africa (NADEOSA) was included on the programme for the day. Tony Mays reports.

 

Launch of Sol Plaatje University

Saide's Director, Jenny Glennie, was recently appointed by the Minister of Higher Education and Training to Chair the Interim Council of the new Sol Plaatje University. As part of the launch proceedings she addressed the Award Winners of the Architectural Competition, commenting on the role of the Council and the vision of the University


 

Issues in Translating and Versioning Stories for Early Reading in Local African Languages

Central to the African Storybook Project's strategy for providing sufficient stories in African languages for early reading, is translation and versioning. In order to provide a critical mass of stories we are in the process of translating or versioning 50 of our stories into the main languages of the pilot sites. The contexts and issues are different in each of the pilot countries. Juliet Tembe, Dorcas Wepukhulu, Lorato Trok and Tessa Welch share their initial experiences.

 

 

Unisa Cambridge Open Distance and eLearning Conference 2013

The Unisa Cambridge Open Distance and eLearning Conference 2013 was recently held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Greig Krull reports on the conference.

 

OER: A Question of Context

Earlier this year Tony Mays was involved in three workshops with an Open Educational Resources (OER) component in three different parts of the world: India, United Kingdom and Trinidad. Each had a different focus and involved different role-players, but in each case OER was part of a solution to a curriculum challenge that needed to be met.